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what to do before jacking up your car
whenever the misfortune of a flat tire occurs, some basic procedures should be followed before the car is jacked up. if possible, your car should be positioned on as firm and level a surface as is available. the engine has to be turned off; the parking brake should be set; and the automatic transmission shift lever must be placed in "park" or the manual transmission lever in " reverse." the wheel diagonally opposite the one to be removed should have a piece of wood placed beneath it to prevent the wheel from rolling. the spare wheel, jack, and lug wrench should be removed from the luggage compartment.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.